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2025 is the 35th anniversary of the Archives Association of British Columbia! While we are excited to reflect on this legacy and the role of archives within the larger heritage landscape, what are the institutional milestones that you’d like to share? We invite our membership to recognize and celebrate milestones and anniversaries from their organizational history and those found within fonds and collections in their holdings that have community connections. It’s time to celebrate archives and the memories that we work to share and preserve for future generations. All events are free, but registration is required in advance! Monday, November 17, 2025 Member's Trivia event Tuesday, November 18, 2025 Roundtea: "School Archives: Behind the Desk" Join us to learn about the work happening behind the scenes in the archives held at Crofton House School (est 1898) and Victoria High School (est 1876). Both schools are gearing up to celebrate milestone anniversaries in the coming year and this creates exciting opportunities for showcasing the school archives and the enduring work being undertaken by staff and alumni volunteers maintaining these collections. Speakers: Manda Haligowski, Archivist, Crofton House School; Annie Boldt and Linda Baker, Victoria High School Archives View the Roundtea recording. Wednesday, November 19, 2025 Webinar: "Seacans and Trailers and Records….Oh My!" Do you find yourself faced with the challenges of using a unconventional storage space like a shipping container (Seacan) or a repurposed trailer to store your records? We invite you to learn about how to make the best of this space - including a review of storage best practices, what type of pests to look out for, how to cost-effectively retrofit a Seacan with shelving, and other supplies/equipment that should be considered. Speakers: Courtney King, YCA Community Archivist; Lisa Glandt, AABC EAS Coordinator; Tamis Cochrane, Taku River Tlingit First Nation View the Webinar recording and presentation Resource List. Thursday, November 20, 2025 Film Screening: "Nechako: It Will Be A Big River Again" This session was not recorded. We encourage you to watch the film trailer below and visit the film website at: https://nechakoriver.ca |
Nechako is a crucial documentary from Lyana Patrick that follows two Indigenous Nations fighting for our collective future. When the Kenney Dam was built in the 1950s, it diverted 70 percent of the Nechako River into an artificial reservoir, severely impacting the lives of local Stellat’en and Saik’uz Nations. What followed were decades of resistance, including legal actions against the Canadian federal and provincial governments and Rio Tinto Alcan, a subsidiary of a global mining conglomerate. Nechako follows the people fighting today to restore a river and a way of life: Nations going up against industry, community leaders advocating for their people, Elders documenting their histories and community members living off the land. An urgent call to action, Patrick’s film asks what survival looks like when it serves everyone, in a story 70 years in the making—a story of hope and resistance against all odds, amidst large-scale environmental destruction and despite the will of powerful institutions. Lyana Patrick will join us online after the film to talk about it and her role working with Indigenous communities in BC and how archival records and building relationships were part of her filmmaking process. Lyana Patrick is an award-winning, Vancouver-based director, writer and researcher from the Stellat’en First Nation. Committed to elevating Indigenous stories, she studied film at the Native Voices Program, University of Washington. Her acclaimed short films A Place to Belong and The Train Station have been showcased at prestigious festivals like Hot Docs, DOC NYC and the Vancouver International Film Festival, earning her recognition for her powerful, community-centred storytelling.This film is provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada, Lantern Films and Experimental Forest Films.
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Friday, November 21, 2025 Roundtea: "5th (BC) Field Artillery Regiment: “Implementing an Online Museum and Archives” Achieving a major milestone - join us to learn more about the multi-year process that the 5th (BC) Field Artillery Regiment, a small, volunteer run museum and archives located on Vancouver Island, went through in implementing a system to provide online access to their collection. This presentation will also include a "live" demonstration of the user view of their software system with a focus on how users can search for items of interest. Speaker: Vic Skaarup, 5th (BC) Field Artillery Regiment Museum and Archives View the Roundtea recording. |
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